The University of Denver has submitted an application to host a presidential or vice presidential debate in fall 2012. It marks the first time DU has competed for one of the nationally televised events that occur just before the November election. Last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that […]
Professor Laura Rovner has been wrangling with prison officials in Colorado over solitary confinement practices for years. In April, she takes that fight to Washington, D.C. Rovner is scheduled to speak April 6 in a United States Congressional Office Building at a briefing titled “The Abuses of Solitary Confinement in […]
More than a dozen years after the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established, one of its leaders sees signs of hope in a world that continues to need an international body to review atrocities and crimes against humanity. William Pace (BA history ’68) accepted the Ved Nanda Center for International […]
“Inclusive Excellence in Practice” will be the theme of DU’s 10th annual Diversity Summit on May 6. The day-long event will be open to the DU campus and the greater Denver community. Online registration begins on April 1. The summit will feature successful diversity and inclusion practices from community and […]
The University of Denver is offering three ways to watch TEDxDU. This year, participants can attend the live TEDxDU program or the TEDxDU Active watch party on campus. Participants also can watch a live stream of the event online at www.tedxdu.com. TEDxDU Active — the live simulcast — will be […]
DU’s Center for Judaic Studies is working with the Iliff School of Theology and the Religious Advisory Council to host a day of interfaith bridge-building as the first official activity associated with the Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site. “Voices in Dialogue” will feature Muslim, American Indian, Jewish and Christian religious […]
This week, DU students will try to get a handle on the hairy job of growing a mustache and don their funkiest disco attire for what promises to be much more than an average college theme party. Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity’s seventh annual Mustache Bash will be held at 9 […]
It’s one of those double-take moments: “Did I just see a dog walk across the stage?” Well, if you’ve attended a DU Commencement at the Graduate School of Social Work, the answer is yes, you likely did see a dog walk across the stage. It’s part of a special program […]
It seems like such a basic thing: Somewhere in this age of Internet, there should be a one-stop, easy-to-use collection of reliable free legal information. But for thousands of Coloradans, even a simple question can mean paying a professional for reliable advice or going it alone and making a mistake. […]
DU and the Iliff School of Theology are sponsoring an international conference on Religion, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery March 31–April 2 on the campuses of the two institutions. The conference will draw attention to the contemporary problems of human trafficking and slavery and address what faith-based organizations are doing […]
Eliza Griswold traveled 9,000 miles to two continents and 10 countries over the past seven years for her latest book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). Griswold, an award-winning American journalist and poet, gave a talk about the book […]
Even though Lauren Johnson passed away a few years ago, her legacy lives on. Johnson, a 23-year-old graduate student studying international relations at DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in her off-campus apartment Jan. 5, 2009. In her memory, people close to her started […]
The bikes are back in town. The Denver B-cycle program — which had been closed for winter since December — officially re-opened March 14. All 50 bike kiosks around Denver — including two on campus and one near the DU light-rail station — will be stocked with the popular red […]
DU’s Study Abroad Office has been monitoring the situation in Japan during the past week. Given the ongoing nature of the crisis, the office has decided to cancel its spring semester programs in Tokyo and Osaka. DU currently has three students in Japan. Earlier this week, administrators in DU’s Study […]
Eliza Griswold, an award-winning American journalist and poet, will be the spring 2011 Bridges to the Future speaker. Her lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. March 22 at DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts. A former Harvard Nieman Fellow, Griswold reports on religion, conflict and human rights. She’s won […]